From Baseball to Basketball

Searching some of the top stories in news for the day I came across an Alex Rodriguez headline. Rodriguez is the starting third baseman for the New York Yankees. The story is about his wife filing for divorce. I thought the photo included with the article was humorous. It is him and his wife in the stands of what seems to be a sporting event. He looks to be annoyed with her because she seems to be talking to him to . The article talks about his extramarital affairs so the photograph is fitting to the description of Rodriguez by his wife in the article calling her husband an adulterer who "emotionally abandoned his wife and children."

I looked at headlines from cbssportsline.com, espn.com, foxsports.com and mlb.com and noticed they all had the same top story. The story was about pitcher C.C. Sabathia, who was traded to the Milwaukee Brewers from the Cleveland Indians. Both cbsportsline and foxsports.com had interesting plays on words for headlines. It seems sports news organizations are into clever headlines and in this case they are incorporating a players name. CBS used the headline "C.C. (ya) Sabathia." Fox used the headline "C.C. you later." The coverage on Sabathia is different between the news organizations such as foxsports.com which talks about the Sabathia trade in a news story along with other important story lines in professional baseball. Espn.com does a similar job but instead looks at the particular division the Brewers are in. The article looks at the effect the Sabathia trade has on the Brewers and the two other teams in contention for winning the division, which are the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals. The MLB page focuses more on video content to help tell the story. There is a video with baseball experts discussing the impact of the trade. There is another video included showing the report of the Sabathia trade by mLB.com. This was apart of a package including other top stories in baseball.

On a humorous note, the video showing Shaquille O'Neal of the NBA's Phoenix Suns badmouthing his former teammate Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers in a freestyle has to be one of the funnier moments for professional athletes and a low point depending on perceptions.